Comments on: Google Suggest in the Wrong Language http://v1.ripper234.com/p/google-suggest-in-the-wrong-language/ Stuff Ron Gross Finds Interesting Sun, 02 Aug 2015 11:03:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 By: ripper234 http://v1.ripper234.com/p/google-suggest-in-the-wrong-language/comment-page-1/#comment-331 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/p/google-suggest-in-the-wrong-language/#comment-331 Nice link, though I doubt this is really the problem. For most off-country queries there aren’t really any search results, like עםםעךק צשפד, so any “did you mean” here is better than nothing.

]]> By: Amir http://v1.ripper234.com/p/google-suggest-in-the-wrong-language/comment-page-1/#comment-330 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:19:00 +0000 http://localhost/p/google-suggest-in-the-wrong-language/#comment-330 I’ve seen several web sites, trying to produce a service from this type of errors.
Then I thought, why Google is not doing it by themselves. its being done by the google toolbar, but not in the search engine. When i type in Google search engine: “עםםעךק צשפד” (which is “Google maps”) it should return organically in the search results something like: “did you mean Google Maps”.

My guess is that Google are a bit worried about messing with search results. When they launched the “did you mean” service they had some problems, and they got some back fire about it.
I can only assume that since the language typos are a small fraction from the entire searches, Google is OK with leaving these kind of services to small fishes.

]]> By: ripper234 http://v1.ripper234.com/p/google-suggest-in-the-wrong-language/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:09:00 +0000 http://localhost/p/google-suggest-in-the-wrong-language/#comment-329 True. Searching for ‘ןלןפקגןש which is what you get is you type Wikipedia with your keyboard in Hebrew mode, you get this result as the number one result, and Wikipedia itself is not in search results.

]]> By: Amir http://v1.ripper234.com/p/google-suggest-in-the-wrong-language/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:46:00 +0000 http://localhost/p/google-suggest-in-the-wrong-language/#comment-328 why they don’t use this feature also in their search results?
i don’t look at the search box when i type.

]]> By: ripper234 http://v1.ripper234.com/p/google-suggest-in-the-wrong-language/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:51:00 +0000 http://localhost/p/google-suggest-in-the-wrong-language/#comment-327 Yes, that.

Apparently I wasn’t using it at all 🙂

]]> By: Eran http://v1.ripper234.com/p/google-suggest-in-the-wrong-language/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:36:00 +0000 http://localhost/p/google-suggest-in-the-wrong-language/#comment-326 Or, since some of us actually want Tabmix’s features, just right click and choose open in new tab (or use the keyboard shortcut for that action while clicking).

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